Omar

I always forget to set it to AM instead of PM (or vice-versa). It's like when you plug in a USB. It's always upside down.

Yes, that's a woman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77kOyA-50y8 That's also a woman on vocals.

Isn't that what "snooze" does?

I'd much rather do tequila shots, at least they do taste like alcohol, but that really tasted like oily water with strong cinnamon candy flavour.

@Realize: That's... great.

He just one-upped you dude, you guys aren't at the same level.

Inches - The Unsupervised. There is way too much music not on youtube right now.

Absolutely true. If a Jewish person wants to live in Palestine, for whatever reason, fine. But to live in Israel in its current incarnation is support for Zionism because you pay taxes and probably fight on behalf of a fanatical Zionist state. The only difference between Sayyid Qutb and Theodor Herzl is that our countries supported the latter, while the former was executed. Otherwise, both were religious fanatics driven to their conclusions by unfortunate circumstance. So then everyone should leave until a leader you admit is a little fanatical and probably a little insane decides to randomly see reason and go, "Hey, you know, maybe I should just tone it down a notch". You let me know how that works out. Until then, maybe you can realize that the way you're facing such a situation isn't realistic. I am speaking hypothetically. Furthermore, most people in Israel are Zionists, so of course most wouldn't leave. I am not trying to encourage some sort of mass exodus or temporary evacuation. So long as there is an Israel, it will be Zionist to whatever degree. I just think that people who see reason should have no problem emigrating back to their country of origin - for the most part, the USA. By the age of 15, an Israeli child who isn't going to be drawn into fanaticism will've seen reason, I am sure. If they were serious in their opposition to Zionist fanaticism and so on, the intelligent ones would study abroad and find it easy to make a life there. You forget that Israel was founded by millions of Jews who did just get up and go - largely from livelihoods in America and Europe - which is exactly why Christopher Hitchens calls Israel "a state of Jewish farmers on Arab land". a) Religious belief is stronger than reason. b) We're talking about millions of immigrants vs. a handful of emigrants. The impact isn't comparable.

[bleep] trimming. The only part of my body I shave/trim is my face, and I'll probably only trim as soon as I can grow a full beard. I think I forgot my Merkur razor in Montreal, so I've been shaving with only blades in my hand.

I think she's leaving anyway, so now's the time to be witty, while remaining respectful. It's good practice. Flirt, but don't look like you're trying to impress her. If possible, talk with other people about as much. She's not a priority.

Taxes or not, by the time you've grown enough to understand the situation, you've built your entire life in that country. You can't just leave; that's a huge sacrifice, and considering the percentage of Jews who will be to leave, it won't be effective in any way...

Just because you're not a Zionist, doesn't mean you should leave Israel. You just shouldn't kick people out of it.

I was a judge in a high-five competition and next thing I knew I was dreaming about obese black children painted in shades of blue and green. The drink is nasty. You can't really taste the alcohol, but it has a really greasy texture. I didn't drink more than usual, but I managed to black out. Maybe I shouldn't have had vodka as well, but man, worst day ever. I had to get off the bus at every mall to take a trip to the bathroom.

Yes, it's just for you.

Hold up. My friend showed me a website to buy skate shoes for really cheap, so assuming the shipping charges aren't ridiculous, you might save a lot of dough (I bought mine for around 60$ and could have had them for 20-30$). I'll ask him for a link.

Nice. You should learn to tie your laces right though. Were they blue in the beginning?

I am growing fonder and fonder of Converse.

I might try Goldschlager, as it's basically the same thing, but actually available. Never again. Never. At least I got everything into the garbage.

By these days, do you mean right now or in this day and age? You say you don't need to be monogamous to raise a child, but I don't know how many successful examples of this exist in modern society (I really don't, so I'm not excluding the idea that some might exist). As for your freedom and duty, it's an issue Brett and Kate addressed: [hide]Love is the grease in the gears of life. There are two central drivers of the actions we take in life: love and duty. Both are important, but love is the higher motivation and the one that makes life, and our relationships, easy and joyful. In college I had an acquaintance I was not particularly fond of who called me late one night; he was at the airport an hour away and his ride had fallen throughcould I come pick him up? I did so. But I went out the door grumbling and grumbled all the way to the airport. A few years later, when Kate and I were dating, she called me with the same request. It was even later at night. But this time I went rushing out the door and smiled the whole way. What was the difference? Duty versus love. Picking up Kate didnt even slightly register as an inconvenience. The sage William George Jordan puts the difference so well: Duty is forced, like a pump; love is spontaneous, like a fountain. Duty is prescribed and formal; it is part of the red tape of life. It means running on moral rails. Analyze, if you will, any of the great historic instances of loyalty to duty, and whenever they ring true you will find the presence of the real element that made the act almost divine. It was dutyplus love. Duty is a hard, mechanical process for making men do things that love would make easy. It is a poor understudy to love. It is not a high enough motive with which to inspire humanity. Duty is the body to which love is the soul. Love, in the divine alchemy of life, transmutes all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. The workman who drops his tools at the stroke of twelve, as suddenly as if he had been struck by lightning may be doing his dutybut he is doing nothing more. No man has made a great success of his life or a fit preparation for immortality by doing merely his duty. He must do thatand more. If he puts love into his work, the more will be easy. When you remain deeply in love with someone, your responsibilities and obligations to them flow naturally and spontaneously. The more love in your relationship, the more grease there is on the gears of life, and the smoother things go in all areas of it. Lose that grease, and the gears must grind it out. Many people have said that marriage is hard. But this has not been my experience at all. Marriage has been easy. Truly.[/hide]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX8IFcAT1AE :cry:

Wasn't that a perfect thing to answer? "I can't put down those books you recommended, they're just so cool!" And best of all, if she got you into them she'll actually have something to answer, since she's probably just as into HP as you are. Try to work on wording things so that you sound like you're in a good mood, but don't overdo it, as it can be obnoxious.

Refreshing indeed. What's the ideal polygamous lifestyle to you? Is marriage necessary? Living together? Founding a family?

Is your roommate really not an option?

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/08/09/romantic-love-can-last/ So apparently, it's not all polygamy. And maybe whether you're within that 13% percentage we've been talking of not too long ago or not is not out of your control.

This, when you have an empty day and you know you're just going to be bored (and boring) try, I don't know, cooking. Also, you probably haven't done "nothing" all day. It's a little hard to remember what you did sometimes, but if it kept you interested all day, it's probably not nothing.